Thursday, February 1, 2007

Reading/Viewing List

Below is a list of materials that we will use in this class. The list includes films and books, and I will update it as regularly as possible. Feel free to check out this material at any time (I have most of this stuff at school if you want to check it out).

1. Subculture: The Meaning of Style by Dick Hebdige
2. Heavy Metal Parking Lot (film directed by . . . ) & Harry Potter / Neil Diamond Parking Lot
3. Commodify Your Dissent & The Baffler Magazine (edited by Tom Frank)
4. Style Wars
5. Wild Style
6. Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael Azzerad
7. The Call of The Weird by Louis Theroux
8. Space Is The Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra by John F. Swed
9. Rock and The Pop Narcotic by Joe Carducci
10. Blues People by Leroi Jones
11. Trekkies (film by . . . )
12. Introducing Semiotics by . . .
13. F-You Heroes: Photographs 1975-1991 by Glen E. Friedman
14. A Secret Location on the Lower East Side
15. All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s by Daniel Kane
16. Songs For Cassavetes (film)
17. Downtown 81 (starring Jean-Michel Basquiat)
18. Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture by Stephen Duncombe

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Other Hip-hop related Documentaries are:

The Freshest Kids: A History of B-Boy

Scratch

Freestyle:The Art of Rhyme

Rhyme & Reason

Maestro

Dncan said...

Jeff i thought you might like this like.

its all of the powell videos fo free.

http://skatepdx.blogspot.com/search/label/Powell%20Peralta